{"id":674,"date":"2025-05-21T03:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=674"},"modified":"2025-05-21T03:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:40:01","slug":"may-2025-backgammon-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"May 2025 Backgammon Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a good turnout for this month&#8217;s event &#8211; 16 players, making for two perfect 8 person brackets. I appreciate everyone&#8217;s cooperation, it made for a very smooth running day!<\/p>\n<p>There was much excitement as well, as I was able to distribute those cool new t-shirts! I wore my red one (yes, I got one of each), and got complimented on it by the bartender before the event even started. They&#8217;re that cool looking. If you didn&#8217;t pre-order, don&#8217;t despair, I got some extras and will sell them off on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;A&#8221; bracket, round one had Bodger over Dave, Kyle over Larry, Jeremy over Howard, and me over Tim. I had a good day. Tim got taken out in a 2 game match, but my second round (against Bodger) and final (against Jeremy) I had to stage come from behind wins post-Crawford. Still, 3-0. Howard and Dave both fought their ways through the full consolation to meet in the final, with Howard coming out on top there.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;B&#8221; bracket, round one had Andres over Stan, newcomer Brian over Ben, Gabe over Ed, and Mark A over Steve. Andres went on to win the bracket over Mark A, with Steve coming out on top of the consolation bracket.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Championship Qualifier is right around the corner, and then I need to get the Tour of Patios on the calendar, so much more backgammon action coming soon!<\/p>\n<p>-Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a good turnout for this month&#8217;s event &#8211; 16 players, making for two perfect 8 person brackets. I appreciate everyone&#8217;s cooperation, it made for a very smooth running day! There was much excitement as well, as I was able to distribute those cool new t-shirts! I wore my red one (yes, I got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May 2025 Backgammon Tournament Results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}